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(No Model.) F W HAHN SOFT TREAD HORSBSHOE.

Patented Dec. 8, 1896.

fill/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK IV. HAHN, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

SOFT-TREAD HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,602, dated December 8, 1896.

Application filed September 14, 1896. Serial No. 605,776- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WV. HAHN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to prevent horses from slipping and stumbling.

The invention consists in forming a metal frame consisting of a nail-flange, a groove for supporting a packing, the outer wall of which merges into a heavy calk, the said calk being provided with vertical lugs, which are bent over after the packing has been put in the recess F, the said lugs being so formed in relation to the calk that when bent over onto the packing the top surface of the lugs is on a level, or nearly so, with the tread of the calk.

Figure 1 represents the base or tread side of the shoe and a sufficient part of the packing to show the use of the calk-lugs. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1 on line a, and Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1 on line so.

,A, Fig. 1, represents a horseshoe cast or struck up from metal, and is provided with a thin horizontal nail-flange A, having nailholes A B, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is a rightangled flange which merges into the heavy calk B and forms the outer wall of the packing-recess F. The calk B at the toe of the shoe is made broad and heavy, so that it may wear and serve the purpose for which it is intended. This calk is provided with two lugs E, which when cast or struck up extend beyond the lower or tread surface of the calk, as shown in Fig. 3; and in order that the lugs E when bent over onto.the packing D, as shown in Fig. 2, may be even with or below the tread of the calk a sink E is formed around the base of each lug E. By this plan it is readily seen that the lugs are prevented from wearing ofl too soon, and thereby allowing the packing to be stubbed or torn out of the re cess F.

The lug E is formed within the area of the tread or lower side of the calk B, its inner wall being' flush with the inner wall of the calk B, as shown in Fig. 3; and by this plan the groove F is of a uniform width and free from any obstructions, which enables the packing D to be readily and easily placed in the groove F.

The right-angled flange 0 forms the inner wall of the recess F and is provided with recesses O and lugs 0 the lugs being bent over onto the packing D, as shown in the left side of Fig. 1; and in order that the packing may be securely held at the toe of the shoe one of the lugs C is located opposite the space between the calk-lugs E.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent'of the United States, is

1. The frame A having'the thin horizontal flanges A, the inner flange 0 provided with lugs 0 the flanges B uniting with and merging into a solid broad and heavy calk B, the lug E, and the sink E, in combination with the packing D, as and for the purpose described.

2. The frame A having nail-flanges A, inner flange O, outer flanges B uniting with and merging into the broad and heavy calk B, and the lug E located on the calk and having its base formed below the tread of the calk by the sink E and its inner wall flush with the inner wall of the calk, in combination with the packing D, as and for the purpose described.

I11 testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in pres ence of two witnesses, this 6th day of August, 1896.

FREDERICK W. I-IAIIN. 

